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2. Pencil skirt - Wikipedia

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   Pencil skirts made from stretchy knitted fabrics do not normally need vents or pleats. Typical shoes for wearing with a pencil skirt are pumps, or high heels, with sheer stockings or tights. Back-seamed hosiery recalls the classic pencil-skirt era of the 1950s. Pencil skirts can also be worn with flats for a more casual, youthful appearance ...

3. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   ASTM D6960-04 – Women's Plus sizes (2004) There is no mandatory clothing size or labeling standard in the US, though a series of voluntary standards have been in place since the 1930s. The US government, however, did attempt to establish a system for women's clothing in 1958 when the National Bureau of Standards published Body Measurements ...

4. File:Hemline (skirt height) overview chart 1805-2005.svg

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   In the early 1970's, some women stayed with the miniskirt, some women went to the other extreme of ankle-length "granny dresses", while fashion designers tried to push an intermediate "midi" skirt length (see illustrations from September 1971 issue of Women's Wear Daily on p. 473 of Survey of Historic Costume ISBN 1-56367-142-5). The strong ...

5. Skirt - Wikipedia

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   A tailored skirt hanging straight from the hips and fitted from the waist to the hips by means of darts or a yoke. It may have a vent or kick-pleat set in the hem for ease of walking. Underskirt: Simple, basic skirt over which an overskirt, or drapery, hangs. [22] Wrap or wraparound skirt: A skirt that wraps around the waist with an overlap of ...

6. Hemline index - Wikipedia

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   The hemline index is a theory that suggests that skirt length (hemlines) rise or fall along with stock prices. The most common version of the theory is that skirt lengths get shorter in good economic times (1920s, 1960s) [1] and longer in bad, such as after the 1929 Wall Street crash. However, the reverse has also been proposed with longer ...

7. Miniskirt - Wikipedia

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   A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than 10 cm (4 in) below the buttocks; [1] and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a miniskirt dress.